This series explores the culture of modern spirituality through the rise of Kundalini yoga in the West, from its origins | dHNfUEluTzhnb2NtMWs
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00:01I'm Guru Jagat and I want to introduce you to Kundalini Yoga.
00:05The American has built a multi-million dollar business as a yoga master to the stars.
00:10She's like the Kim Kardashian of the spiritual world.
00:14I never understood why there weren't more questions about a white woman in a turban.
00:20Inhale.
00:21My teacher, Yogi Bhajan, gave every ounce of his day and night to delivering this canon of teachings.
00:32He's credited with bringing Kundalini to the West.
00:35He offers his students a prescriptive lifestyle.
00:39What to eat, when you should have sex with your spouse, and having money was a sign that you were doing it right.
00:44Much like Yogi Bhajan, Guru Jagat had everyone under her spell.
00:48Those who hold the powers of these teachings will rule the earth for 5,000 years.
00:55She said, the more money you give to your teacher, you rise the ranks of like spiritual attainment.
01:02That's what I would call a Kundalini awakening.
01:05She was promoting spiritual practice that she believed in.
01:09Unfortunately, it was mostly made up by Yogi Bhajan.
01:13He needed his secretaries to help run the organizations.
01:16But they were all women?
01:17Yeah, it raised a lot of suspicions.
01:19He created this empire of abuse, and she chose to take on this persona.
01:24Along with that comes paranoia, and things started to get weirder and weirder.
01:30The FBI is watching. His phones are being tapped.
01:34The things that children were put through.
01:36These people are so much worse than I ever could have imagined.
01:40When these revelations came out, everything went crazy for everybody.
01:44The walls were closing in on her.
01:46Your reality is a trance of your own making.
01:52Or someone else's making, who doesn't have your greatest good in mind.